Practical work in general psychology

Course: Psychology

Structural unit: Faculty of Psychology

Title
Practical work in general psychology
Code
ОНД.11
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
First
Year of study when the component is delivered
2021/2022
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
3 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
8
Learning outcomes
LO1. To analyze and interpret mental phenomena, identify psychological problems and suggest ways to resolve them. LO5. To select and use: valid and reliable psychological research and assessment methods (tests, questionnaires, projective techniques etc.); techniques of psychological help. LO6. To define the research purpose and the tasks, to have skills of collecting empirical data, to follow the research norms. LO7. To consider and critically evaluate the reliability of the results of the psychological research, make valid conclusions.
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
To know the history of psychology as a science, its subject and methods. Be able to summarize primary sources, compile a bibliography. Have basic skills in forming the main regulators of activity and behavior in the group based on the discipline "Introduction to the specialty". The practical work is a logical continuation of the study of mental processes of sensation and perception. To know the spheres of psyche; methods of research and diagnosis of imagination, emotional and volitional sphere of pers onality,Methods of mathematical statistics, which are used to analyze quantitative results.
Course content
To provide practical training of students in the use of methods and techniques of research. Namely, mastering the knowledge of methods (observation, experiment, psychodiagnostic methods, analysis of products), the formation of skills to use methods and techniques of studying imagination, emotions and will and the development of skills to analyze results. Aim of practical work is to consolidate the provisions of basic scientific theories and demonstration of psychological mechanisms of sensory-perceptual organization of a person; to provide practical training of students in the use of methods and techniques of research of sensation and perception. Namely, mastering the knowledge of methods of research of sensation and perception (methods of classical psychophysics - the method of average error, the method of minimal change); formation of skills to use methods and techniques of studying sensations and perceptions; development of skills of analysis of the obtained results.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
Davey G. Psychology. - Wiley; 1st edition, 2018. – 1080 p. Barrett L. How Emotions Are Made. - Macmillan Ltd, 2018. – 448 p. Goldstein B. Sensation and Perception. - Cengage Learning; 10th edition, 2016. – 496 p. King L. The Science of Psychology. - AP Edition Print and Digital bundle, 2017. – 736 p. Schwartz B. Sensation and Perception. - SAGE Publications, Inc; 1st edition, 2015. – 480 p. Sdorow, Rickabaugh, Betzstudy Guide for Psychology. - Academic Media Solutions, 2019. – 822 p. Popov A. Psychology Course Book: Oxford IB Diploma Programme. - Oxford University Press, 2017. – 456 p.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Laboratory classes, creative and reproductive tasks, Individual work.
Assessment methods and criteria
The credit is based on the results of the student's work during the semester (the maximum number of points for work during the semester is 100) and does not provide additional assessment activities for successful students. For students who during the semester did not reach the minimum threshold level (60% of the maximum possible number of points) is the final semester test, the maximum score for which may not exceed 40% of the final grade (up to 40 points on a 100-point scale). Final assessment in the form of credit: the maximum number of 40 points, the minimum number of points that are added to the semester - 24 points (60% of the maximum number of points allocated for credit). Students who scored a total of less than the critical minimum - 36 points are not allowed to take the test. The recommended minimum for admission to the test - 36 points.
Language of instruction
Ukrainian

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Oleksandra Andriivna Loshenko
Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology
Faculty of Psychology
Anton Oleksandrovych Kurapov
Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology
Faculty of Psychology
Sergiy Vitaliiovych Lytvyn
Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology
Faculty of Psychology
Tamara Petrivna Klimash
Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology
Faculty of Psychology
Veronika Ihorivna Kondratieva
Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology
Faculty of Psychology
Nataliia Ivanivna Burkalo
Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology
Faculty of Psychology